Travelling On

rtandon27

KC - your comment about the dreaded ivy actually being yours had me chuckling!  Imagine all the times you cursed it only to discover it's actually yours!
I have mixed feelings about the ivy that abounds in our garden.  I absolutely hate it growing on the house & spend hours discouraging it there,  Also hate the way it evasively takes over under the hedgerow & the (naturalized) back-edge of the garden, so again spend hours doing battle with it!  I do however LOVE the way it looks climbing up the old lilac tree - gorgeous when it flowers & then the leaves that turn colour in the winter - our bees love it too!  I've come to the conclusion this year that it needs *a lot* of maintenance in order to behave itself!  A bit like a problem child, needs to be nurtured & shown tough love

Karmacat

Hi Queen Jess, amazing that your honeysuckle is flowering, with bees!  My honeysuckle won't come back till next year, I think, it was supported by the laurel, so a lot of it has gone - it's already back on the ground though What *is* in my garden right now, that the bees love, is mahonia.  It's big, it's bright with yellow flowers again, and its noisy with buzzing.  I love it

Hi maddie, thank you for your post, and the linkie - the site looks fascinating in general.    The research is done not too far from me, as well, which makes it extra interesting.  But the three things against  it are still valid, I'm afraid - my neighbour suffers with asthma, I have to spend a lot of time pruning it and getting no satisfaction from it, and it never flowers anyway, as we have to prune it - you know the side return on semi detached houses, where there's a narrow path at the side?  That's where it is, it *can't* be let grow, or even let flower.  But I'll think about where else it could grow, I promise.

Managed long chats with both bro and sis yesterday and today, more pruning, plus I made some scones (didn't follow the recipe as exactly as I did last time, so they were terrible!) and not much else, quite frankly.  I have to get my act together, and I don't seem to want to ... hmmm.  Must try harder!

apple_muncher

Who say you have to get your act together? You are joyfully beholden to no-one!

QueenJess

I'm with you on that.. just can't be bothered to get stuff done this week! Achieved nothing so far apart from doing lots of boring work.

Karmacat

That's it, no external structure so my own structure wavers a bit sometimes  Apple, I know what you mean that I'm not beholden to anyone (thank heavens!) but as well as catching up from the illness, I need to get more out of my days - I feel better, for one thing, rather than just watching stupid tv.  In that vein: 45 mins weeding on the bed of winter savory, under the flowering mahonia - slightly dangerous, there's truly a *lot* of bees there!  But there's no brambles any more, and the rhododendron isn't taking over the mahonia either I'm happy.  Plus my brother's new grandchild to be born in spring is a girl!  First one, he has 5 grandsons.  Woo hoo, for sure Another woo hoo: I'm typing this on the new computer!  And temporarily gone back to using IE.  Life is good  

maddiemay

I totally get what you mean with the ivy KC, we have a lot of garden here, together with a couple of tall stumps from trees that have lived out their lifespan and died and can accommodate some of it.
One of the things I find with the chronic fatigue (an unwelcome result of 2 if not 3 of my medical conditions) is that, for me, it is often really difficult to stir myself when coming out of an episode of it, even when I know that 15/30/45 minutes spent outside, or even god forbid doing housework will make me feel much better physically and mentally.

beanielou

That's why I mostly enjoy the FB as some structure!

Karmacat

Maddie, thank you, that's absolutely it with the ivy.  And with the chronic fatigue too, you know a little while doing something will help, but it *feels* like it will kill you before you start it!
Beanie - that's great that you're using the fb to benefit you as well as the end users.  I don't feel great for not having any voluntary work on the go at the moment, but I need all my energy for me, and I just don't feel there's any safe way to meet people and do stuff right now.  I'm on the new computer again, so I'm getting more comfortable with it, and that will help me turn "outwards" in my ordinary life.  Though there still seem to be 3 or 4 options to access my main email account, which kind of confuses me.
Today:  a birthday card to post, and an email to write, in addition to the endless catching up.  Oh, and my sister is driving over tomorrow for a walk: I'm going to investigate the footpath through the golf club locally; we can drive to the start in 5 mins, and be out in the countryside.  Its closed for golf, so no danger of "fore"!

earthgirl2

The ivy made me chuckle!
Very inspired about your comments about doing little and often to get things done. Although I know its different, and I am not ill, when I feel a bit low I just totally stop! 
You have inspired me to do 15 minutes on everything on my list. Thank you!

Karmacat

Hi earthie, good to see you.  You *do* do a lot, you know especially compared to me, heavens, but we take the good where we can, that's for sure.
Had a lovely walk with my sister, to the edge of my town in an area I haven't been to for ages - half a dozen or so pairs of people like us were out, but all very easy to distance.  
I'm still on my new computer, getting well used to it now, the keyboard of a slightly different size and I haven't found all the shortcuts yet, but that's okay.  Right now, I'm just relaxing gathering information for the novel I'd still like to write I'll hang out a little bit more, then do a task of my ongoing stuff this afternoon.